the economy is not necessarily going to tank. it will suffer. >> suffer, tank, not good. still not good. >> not good. we'll agree on that. the prediction is, as john said, the forcing event is not this next -- this march 1st date. it's the march 27 date which is when the govern in the right after that runs out of money and that's when the day after that no government workers will be -- >> usual leap they pass a continuing resolution. a cr, as it is called. >> right. but we probably have to get some sort of an agreement on all of these things before then to kick the can down the road a little bit. that's the expectation both in the white house and on capitol hill. so maybe a short-term deal will be worked out but the problem is a short-term deal is how we got to this problem in the first place. >> so you have a politics that's so dysfunctional that you have to depend on disruption of government services in order to get people to actually do their jobs. it's ridiculous. >> john, before i let you go, walk us through. what's going to happen? assuming that these forced spendin